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Press Release
05/09/2013
Too Many Of India's Children Are Forced To Choose Food Over Education
Rather than attend school, many children must earn money to bring food to the family, focusing on short-term goals and not longer-term opportunities. The result is poor health and educational outcomes that only traps them in the cycle of poverty.
Solution - Akshaya Patra is a mid-day lunch program, helping underprivileged children by providing them with a healthy, balanced meal that they would otherwise have to work for. The meal is an incentive for them to continue their education. It helps reduce the dropout rate to
an enormous extent and increases classroom attendance.
Every day, Akshaya Patra delivers 1.3 million freshly prepared school lunches to children in India to fight hunger, promote education, and eradicate poverty – one child at a time.
Here are the main objectives of this program:
- Avoid classroom hunger
- Increase school enrollment
- Increase school attendance
- Address malnutrition
- Empower women through employment
- Improve socialization among children
Internship Program at Akshaya Patra
Mentored by community and business leaders, Akshaya Patra's internship program provides an opportunity for high school and college students to learn and explore creative solutions in the area of marketing, social media, technology, and community relations. Akshaya Patra's internship program is for individuals who understand and believe that "As ONE person, you cannot change the world, but you can change the world of ONE person."
Akshaya Patra's internship program provides flexibility, and interns can work on-site (Stoneham, MA) and off-site, with a flexible schedule ranging from 20 to 40 hours per week during vacation breaks or 1 to 2 hours per week during the school year. The internships are unpaid. You will be assigned specific tasks and mentors to help you navigate through your assigned project. At the end of your internship, you will receive an official certificate and recognition of your internship work and achievements. Please send name, address and contact information along with your interest in one of two internships listed to Rakesh Kamdar: RakeshKamdar@dbhealthcare.com.
Here are the positions and descriptions:
P1 (POWER of ONE) Community Connect Internship
Intern will be responsible for building relationship with the segment of a community to establish the relationship between Akshaya Patra and community organizations.
Responsibilities
- Understand and master the learning about Akshaya Patra's mission and vision.
- Propose various ways of building community relationship
- Prepare various presentations linking AP and community organization
- Prepare a list of community organizations in your segment
- Establish a guideline for participating community organizations
- Use of social media to increase the reach to community members
- Provide leadership support to assigned members of the community organization
- Meet with your AP mentor regularly to exchange and refine your work.
What will you learn?
- How to deploy creative ideas in real word
- Leadership skills
- How to prepare effective presentations
- Meeting and presentation skills
- Public speaking
- Refining your passion
P1 (POWER of ONE) Business Connect Internship
Intern will be responsible for building relationship with local small and medium businesses to establish the relationship between Akshaya Patra and business.
Responsibilities
- Understand and master the learning about Akshaya Patra's mission and vision.
- Propose various ways of building corporate relationship
- Prepare various presentations linking AP and Businesses
- Prepare a list of businesses in your segment
- Establish a guideline for participating businesses
- Provide leadership support to assigned individuals of the businesses
- Meet with your AP mentor regularly to exchange and refine your work.
What will you learn?
- How to deploy creative ideas in real word
- Leadership skills
- How to prepare effective presentations
- Meeting and presentation skills
- Public speaking
- Refining your passion
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Are you interested in joining a dynamic group of Volunteers at Akshaya Patra? We are looking for volunteers who are willing to help expand activities of Akshaya Patra. Please register by clicking the following link: http://www.foodforeducation.org/get-involved/sign-volunteer.
Alternatively, you can email your name, address and contact information to RakeshKamdar@dbhealthcare.com.
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